Claim · model-written summary
South American wetlands were less diverse than temperate New World wetlands.
- Taxon
- wetland florat0
- Outcome
- less diversee0
- Direction
- less diversee0
- Comparator
- the New World Temperate regione0
- Setting
- Southe0
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Verbatim
e0“both South and Central America were less diverse than the New World Temperate region”
t0“wetland flora”
Title
Biodiversity and phytogeography of Bolivia's wetland flora
Nur Ritter University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) 2000
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Observation Mesoamerican and tropical/subtropical South American wetlands contained 2060 associated species.
- Observation Bolivian wetlands contained 1026 species.
- Observation Bolivian wetlands were less diverse than temperate New World wetlands.
- Observation Central American wetlands were less diverse than temperate New World wetlands.
- Observation Wetland phytodiversity was described as an exception to the latitudinal richness gradient.
- Association Neotropical wetland phytodiversity generally correlated poorly with terrestrial habitat diversity.
- Observation Many Neotropical wetland species had broad ranges.
- Observation Few Neotropical wetland species were endemic relative to terrestrial habitats.
- Method / resource Similarity indices were unsatisfactory for floristic similarity analysis at the system level.
- Method / resource Detrended Correspondence Analysis and Frequency Analysis gave more satisfactory floristic similarity results.
- Observation Dominant species in Bolivian wetlands were usually very widely distributed.
- Observation The broad range of dominant species precluded regional wetland associations based on dominance.
- Method / resource DCA usually grouped wetlands from the same Bolivian region.
- Method / resource Macroregional DCA grouped Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru together.
- Method / resource Macroregional DCA grouped Colombia, the Guianas, and Venezuela together.
- Method / resource Macroregional DCA grouped all Central American countries together.
- Method / resource Mexico and Ecuador had no clear macroregional DCA group.